The latest game from a certain company for a discontinued portable console. And it's all about arthropods! How lovely! You play the main character, called by some name or another, whom you must guide in her quest to cleanse the world of nasty icky gooey bugs. With her trusty crossbow by her side and your steady fingers, you will soon have to face the dreaded king of arthropods, who rises from the oceans in defiance of your exterminatory goals!
Use WASD to move. Use the arrow keys or IJKL to shoot. Turn the volume up or down using the mouse wheel.
Very nice. The only thing I didn't like was the way the gameboy shakes when you kill things, it was good at first but later you kill too many things so it is shaking too much.
t-t-t-t-t-t-o-o-o-o-o-o much camera shake :) Other than that: very very nice. Loved the retro style, the overall presentation and execution - even though the gameplay gets old quickly.
Love the presentation of this! The art was well done, but the enemies and the text was a bit hard to parse due to the angle of the "screen" (and also hard to see against the sea of bug corpses, maybe they could disappear after awhile?) Nice job overall!
Excellent! Got a bit of lag after a while from the sheer amount of carnage but this was very fun, simple, to the point, and full of screenshake! Excellent!
Great graphical style, good music, good execution. My main complaints would be that it would be nice to clarify that arrow keys are shooting (it took me a while to figure this out and they have a musical clef symbol next to them I think?), and the screen shake would REALLY be nice to disable. With the sea of bug corpses, a million bullets, and a shaking screen, it gets nearly impossible to see what's going on.
Also, is there a final boss? I got several levels in (15? 17?) but did not know if there was a number I was aiming for.
Really loved the way it brought up the gameboy, and the controls scribbled on like that, great touches. And the game was great fun to play, well done :)!
The Gameboy-idea really made me smile. The game is fun and a bit addicting. Beating the boss made me cheer! Nicely done! Though the screen-shake/gameboy shake made the game a bit harder to play at some points.
First time I got killed by the Boss so I HAD to play again and beat the st out of that lobster haha, love the game! from the game boy power switch to the end, round game. Good job!
Another really polished game. Art looks really nice, crossbow feels really good, enemies are nice and have a decent amont of variety. The only thing I'd add is high scores.
Great graphics and sorta fun gameplay. I was happy when that end boss appeared, it changed the pacing from "spin uncontrollably in circles while incredible intense screenshake makes you dizzy" back to "this is actually fun playing". Yeah, I never thought I would say this, but... please less screen shake. The over-the-top upgrades are fun, but they don't help when you can't see a thing anymore.
Amazing! Intense! Died at the boss, but will try again later. This game is a blast to play. A gamepad option is the only thing this still needs to be complete!
Pretty dang awesome. I'll also mirror the comment of a little too much screenshake; I get motion sick from the screen constantly flying all over the place, but otherwise really cool game and aesthetic.
Amazing! Aside from the very cool theme usage, this game is really fun to play, smooth controls, furious action. I understand non filtered textures used for the retro feelings but sometimes there just too much on the (one) screen to cope with.
Really nice :D I liked the fact you were rewarded with a power increase after each wave. I was getting bored of the same red and green enemies at one point, but suddenly I was introduced to a more agile quick shooting enemy, right at the time at which I wanted something else - nice timing. Got to the boss and died there :P
Looks like you addressed the things I would've suggested in your postjam version. :)
Nice game, it plays pretty great and I like how it's on the gameboy screen. I'd tone down the screenshake a bit though. Because the game is rendered within the game, it's making me a tad nauseous. Well done though!
Ha ha ha WOW! This was an awesome entry. The floating GameGal background was great, and I feel you've got a really good sense of """""""game feel""""""" or something. I played one round where I got arrows up so many times that the game just got stupidly colourful.
Hey, I really liked your use of the theme for this entry! Things got so hectic so quickly, I kinda didn't know what was going on - but the sheer power the character has by the ended just added to the quirkiness I felt. :)
I felt the music didn't really suit the GBC idea of the game, perhaps a full chip song written in LSDJ might have fit the bill a bit better? Still, that's really just nitpicking on my behalf.
I really loved little touches like particle effects appearing //behind// the screen, they helped add to the polish of the game itself.
I really liked this, keep up the good work folks! :D
I just tried the post-jam version. Much better with less clutter and less screenshake! I'm not sure the screenshake is even necessary, but it's much more playable now. :) Those watermelon bugs are really hard to dodge, but I finally managed to win, even!
Thanks for the positive feedback, everyone! Seems the new version is a big step in the right direction, there'e no better way to figure out what went wrong than to show it to other people. ;)
Brilliant twin stick shooter with an awesome style! Brings me back to when I was little, playing Pokemon and other titles on my own purple Gameboy Color!
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Also, is there a final boss? I got several levels in (15? 17?) but did not know if there was a number I was aiming for.
I was happy when that end boss appeared, it changed the pacing from "spin uncontrollably in circles while incredible intense screenshake makes you dizzy" back to "this is actually fun playing". Yeah, I never thought I would say this, but... please less screen shake.
The over-the-top upgrades are fun, but they don't help when you can't see a thing anymore.
Almost arthromited when the lgc bounced my brain. The game has so much charm though. Yayy!
Overall, excellent job.
Looks like you addressed the things I would've suggested in your postjam version. :)
Loved the game.. It was not that easy... but I managed to finish it without dying.. congratulations to you and your team...
and I wish my game boy did not vibrate that much! :P
I felt the music didn't really suit the GBC idea of the game, perhaps a full chip song written in LSDJ might have fit the bill a bit better? Still, that's really just nitpicking on my behalf.
I really loved little touches like particle effects appearing //behind// the screen, they helped add to the polish of the game itself.
I really liked this, keep up the good work folks! :D
Seems the new version is a big step in the right direction, there'e no better way to figure out what went wrong than to show it to other people. ;)
You should definitely add a link to this page on itch.io !
Congrats